8 WWE Fastlane 2021 Impulse Reactions

5. Braun Strowman Vs Shane McMahon...

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...was off again, having been scrubbed at the last second by Shane McMahon himself.

All of this was p*ss poor, and on a card in desperate need of something good.

'The Money' apparently hurt himself in training earlier in the day, then made a total mug of an Elias trying to offer him a bit of reprieve. The guitarist had barely strummed a chord before his most recent interruption resulted in a sh*tkicking from an angry Braun Strowman. The man who McMahon's been calling thick for a month.

Everybody's thick though, aren't they?

Elias is thick for getting dragged into a total beating from somebody he considered an ally. Jaxson Ryker is thick for just standing there and letting it happen. Strowman's frustratingly as thick as the heel says he is for constantly being given the run around.

McMahon - the cocky pr*ck who could logically be the stupid one in this - is the smartest of the bunch. Not least because he can just disappear again after WrestleMania and return next February with some credibility restored. Here's to 'The Grandest Stage', eh?

 
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